Teaching
The study of history is an exercise in critical questioning and rigorous fact-checking. It is also a personal journey of creative exploration, public outreach and democratic conversation. On this page, you may find information and resources related to my past and ongoing teaching activities.
Teaching
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Overview of Classes
Departmental Website: UZH History
University of Zurich, History Department-
Open_Innovation Project "Art as a Means of Historical Inquiry," 2024–2025
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2024 Spring: “BA Research Seminar: Art as a Means of Historical Inquiry” – UZH History Department, Cross-listed at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
UZH Course CatalogueIn this inter-university teaching collaboration between the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), we develop didactical tools for historians and artists to explore each other’s fields and inspire critical ways of engaging with the past. Over four semesters, UZH undergraduates collaborate with instructors and students from ZHdK as an inter-university team and develop the contents and strategies necessary to teach historical research as a creative and exploratory process. Unlike conventional uses of art as a source of information in historiography, we engage in artistic work as a cognitive process that helps identify tensions, voices and perspectives otherwise hidden by the archive.
The materials created during the funding period will be made available on our prospective online platform. Teaching segments include mapping, storytelling, audience engagement, and non-textual communication around specific historical problems. The segments are implementable as semester-long curricula, or as individual teaching blocs in research design workshops. Built on a solid foundation of critical questioning, analytical writing and multivariant problem solution –– the bedrock of the humanities -– the projects we pursue shall stimulate scientific outreach, civil engagement, and creative problem solving beyond the humanities.
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Current Classes (AY 2023/24)
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2024 Spring: “BA Research Seminar: “Mapping Pacific History.” – History Department.
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2024 Spring: “BA Research Seminar: Art as a Means of Historical Inquiry” – UZH History Department, Cross-listed at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
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2024 Spring: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History” – History Department. Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
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2023 Fall: “Proseminar 2: Konwledege, Politics, and Environmental Disaster: Global Perspectives on Historical Crises.” – History Department.
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2023 Fall: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History” – History Department. Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
UZH Course Catalogue
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The University of Zurich (2022–)
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2024 Spring: “BA Research Seminar: “Mapping Pacific History.” – History Department.
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2024 Spring: “BA Research Seminar: Art as a Means of Historical Inquiry” – UZH History Department, Cross-listed at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
UZH Course Catalogue -
2024 Spring: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History” – History Department. Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
UZH Course Catalogue -
2023 Fall: “Proseminar 2: Konwledege, Politics, and Environmental Disaster: Global Perspectives on Historical Crises.” – History Department.
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2023 Fall: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History” – History Department. Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
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2023 Spring: “BA Seminar: Empire and Environment in the Making of the Modern Pacific.” – History Department.
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2023 Spring: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History” – History Department. Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
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2022 Fall: “Proseminar 1: ‘Natural’ Disaster? Global Histories of Environment, Knowledge and Society in Moments of Crisis.” – History Department.
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2022 Fall: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History” – History Department. Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
UZH Course Catalogue
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Harvard University (2016–2022)
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2021 Spring: History E-1842: "East Asian Environments" – Harvard Extension School. Main instructor: Ian J. Miller.
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2020/21: Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies – Concentration in East Asian Studies, Harvard College.
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2019 Spring: Societies of the World 43: "Japan’s Samurai Revolution" – Harvard College. Main instructor: David L. Howell.
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Departmental Websites
Harvard EALC Department Harvard Early Modern World Network
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Teaching Materials & Research Guides
Departmental Website
University of Zurich, History Department-
Research Guides
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Apps and Dictionaries: Japanese History
- Old Japan - Map Puzzle for Early Modern Japan Japan Knowledge (login required) Japanese Era Name and Zodiac App Koyomi – Japanese Calendar Converter KULA - Kuzushi-ji Learning App Hentaigana App – UCLA Kuzushiji Database @ Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo Basic Dctionary for Early Modern Japanese Jisho.org – Modern Japanese Dictionary with Radical Search
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Archives & Databases: Japan-Pacific History
- Waseda University Kotenseki Sogo Database Whaling History.org Egawa Family Papers Database Senkaku Islands Archives Portal Tokyo Metropolitan Archives The Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo Databases Harvard Yenching Library Okinawa Prefectural Archives University of the Ryukyus Digital Archive
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Teaching Materials
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Digital Humanities
Resources
Thank you for your interest in my work. If you have any questions or wish to know more about my projects, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
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